After the death of the notorious criminal George Rackley, his protégé Blaze decides to carry out Rackley's planned kidnapping of a millionaire's child all by himself. Now, holding little Joe hostage, Blaze is hiding in the woods of Maine... and the police are closing in. And the "crime of the century" turns into a real race against time. The collection also includes the short story "Memory," which served as the basis for the novel "Duma-Key."
